Short Fiction · Character
Lawrence Cooper
An exiled nobleman's son who tends his dying father by night and dreams of returning to Siena to avenge his house.
supporting
Also known as Lorenzo, Lawrence, Cooper
First appearance: a tale of the passions
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Son of Ugo, banished from Siena; Flora's beloved brother.
Lorenzo shoulders the whole weight of his ruined family — nurse to a wasting father, guardian to his sister, keeper of the household's dwindling purse. Grief has not narrowed him; it has enlarged him, though his tenderness toward his father coexists with a fierce inherited hatred of the Tolomei. When his father dies, he enters Siena expecting paradise and finds a desert, and his long nocturnal rebuilding of the family's razed palace shows how memory and vengeance become the engine of his early arc.
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Relationship types
- Other
Character groups
- Love and Intrigue
- Diverse Ensemble
- Protagonist
- Duty vs. Desire
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- Escalation
- Breaking point
- Aftermath
- Closing
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